Table 1.
Cincinnati (Majority) Black neighborhood characteristics
| Cincinnati “Black Neighborhoods” (communities that are more than 50% Black) | Percent Black 1960a | Percent Black 1970b | Percent Black 2005–09b | Jobless rate 2005–09b | Median household income 2005–09b | Percent families living below poverty 2005–09b | Neighborhood violent crime by type (Rate per 1,000), 2009c | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Jim Crow neighborhoods |
Aggravated assault (n) | Rate per lk | Homicide (n) | Rate per lk | Rape(n) | Rate per lk | Robbery (n) | Rate per lk | ||||||
| *e.g., predominantly Black POST Civil Rights Act 1964 and Fair Housing Act 1968 | ||||||||||||||
| Bond Hill | 0.0% | 26.2% | 92.7% | 40.0% | 32,447 | 17.8% | 30 | 3.10 | 1 | 0.10 | 4 | 0.413 | 52 | 5.37 |
| College Hill | 2.0% | 11.2% | 54.2% | 34.0% | $56,540 | 17.3% | 26 | 1.70 | — | 0.00 | 4 | 0.262 | 64 | 4.19 |
| Fay Apartments | 1.0% | 33%a | 92.3% | 71.0% | $9,808 | 71.5% | 21 | 8.56 | 2 | 0.82 | 6 | 2.446 | 18 | 7.34 |
| Kennedy Heights | 17.0% | 58.1% | 70.8% | 37.0% | $49,656 | 11.1% | 14 | 2.64 | — | 0.00 | 2 | 0.378 | 15 | 2.83 |
| Madisonville | 21.0% | 49.3% | 55.8% | 28.0% | $54,054 | 11.9% | 18 | 1.66 | 1 | 0.09 | 6 | 0.554 | 39 | 3.60 |
| Mt. Airy | 0.0% | 20.0% | 54.1% | 34.0% | $34,949 | 21.3% | 20 | 2.06 | 2 | 0.21 | 6 | 0.618 | 42 | 4.33 |
| Mt. Auburn | 10.0% | 73.9% | 52.5% | 42.0% | $28,400 | 34.8% | 24 | 3.68 | 2 | 0.31 | 1 | 0.153 | 43 | 6.60 |
| N. Fair mount- English Woods |
23.0% | 44.3% | 65.7% | 48.0% | $32,353 | 24.7% | 17 | 3.77 | 1 | 0.22 | 5 | 1.109 | 17 | 3.77 |
| Over-the-Rhine | 13.0% | 41.4% | 74.8% | 38.0% | $10,522 | 61.7% | 122 | 15.97 | 5 | 0.65 | 18 | 2.357 | 226 | 29.59 |
| Roselawn | 7.0% | 6.8% | 65.7% | 67.0% | $41,765 | 23.2% | 17 | 2.50 | 1 | 0.15 | 7 | 1.029 | 65 | 9.55 |
| S. Fairmount | 1.0% | 26.0% | 49.7% | 45.0% | $31,538 | 38.9% | 25 | 7.69 | — | 0.00 | 3 | 0.923 | 45 | 13.84 |
| Winston Place | 0.0% | 1.0% | 59.4% | 36.0% | $44,345 | 28.7% | 35 | 6.73 | 2 | 0.38 | 8 | 1.537 | 34 | 6.53 |
| Winston Hills | 4.0% | 75.2% | 82.7% | 61.0% | $10,167 | 66.4% | 5 | 2.14 | — | 0.00 | 1 | 0.428 | 23 | 9.84 |
| Old Jim Crow neighborhoods |
Aggravated assault (n) | Rate per lk | Homicide (n) | Rate per lk | Rape (n) | Rate per lk | Robbery (n) | Rate per lk | ||||||
| *e.g., predominantly Black PRE Civil Rights Act 1964 and Fair Housing Act 1968 | ||||||||||||||
| Avondale | 69.0% | 91.2% | 87.2% | 44.0% | $25,854 | 37.5% | 86 | 5.28 | 6 | 0.637 | 13 | 0.80 | 145 | 8.90 |
| Evanston | 66.0% | 74.1% | 81.4% | 46.0% | $30,764 | 21.2% | 37 | 20.50 | 4 | 2.22 | 9 | 4.99 | 76 | 42.11 |
| S. Cumminsville | 49.0% | 97.7% | 90.0% | 57.0% | $15,465 | 56.9% | 15 | 3.83 | 2 | 0.51 | — | 0.00 | 37 | 9.45 |
| Walnut Hills | 56.0% | 81.9% | 77.2% | 47.0% | $28,901 | 34.5% | 77 | 9.88 | 3 | 0.39 | 7 | 0.90 | 120 | 15.40 |
| West End | 94.0% | 97.1% | 80.6% | 44.0% | $16,606 | 48.8% | 58 | 7.15 | 4 | 0.49 | 6 | 0.74 | 93 | 11.46 |
| Total crime by type for Jim Crow neighborhoods |
647 | 5.08 | 36 | 0.28 | 106 | 0.83 | 1154 | 9.06 | ||||||
| Total crime by type for Cincinnati city | 1044 | 3.16 | 53 | 0.16 | 247 | 0.75 | 2271 | 6.88 | ||||||
| Percent of violent crime for Jim Crow neighborhood | 62% | 68% | 43% | 51% | ||||||||||
| Crime ratio of Maj ority Black Jim Crow neighborhoods to total Cincinnati city violent crime | 1.51 | 1 66 | 1.05 | 1.24 | ||||||||||
Majority Black Jim Crow neighborhoods population size is 41% of total population (n = 339,866) of Cincinnati City in 2005–09.
Note: Westwood, Cincinnati city’s largest neighborhood, is not presented here. Since the 2010 census, due to changes in Statistical Neighborhood Approximation (SNA), Westwood was divided into “east” (tracts 88 and 100) and “west.” Westwood-East is predominantly white and working class, though median income level is increasing due to gentrihcation. Westwood-West is predominantly Black, very low income, and has the highest violent crime rate in the city, leading in rapes (rank 1), robbery (rank 2), and aggressive assault (rank 4).
Source: Charles E Casey-Leininger, Hamilton County Stable Integrated Communities (Cincinnati: Cincinnatus Association, 2007), 1–61.
Source: Michael Maloney and Christopher Auffrey, The Social Areas of Cincinnati An Analysis of Social Needs: Patterns for Five Census Decades (School of Planning, University of Cincinnati, United Way, University of Cincinnati Community Research Collaborative, 2013): 1–213.
Source: Dan Wells, “Cincinnati’s Most Dangerous Neighborhoods,” Foxl9NOW-WIX, Februar)7 23, 2010, p. 1, http://www.foxl9.com/story/12026978/cincinnatis-most-dangerous-neighborhoods.